Governing Nonprofits and Local Political Processes

Hula, Richard C.; Jackson‐Elmoore, Cynthia

doi:10.1177/10780870122184885

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“…businesses and some environmental organizations and (iii) the ever-growing presence of nonprofit organizations in environmental policy and program formulation and implementation. Initial assessments of these external forces indicate that governments still have a significant learning curve in incorporating more environmental volunteerism into their regimes (Collins and Starik, 2001;Rosenbaum, 1998;Vig and Kraft, 2000), that a wide variety of different kinds of business and nonprofit organization have produced a complex set of private environmental partnerships (Elkington, 1998;Hartman and Stafford, 1998;Clair et al, 1995;Turcotte, 1995) and that NGOs continue to gain influence in both developed and developing country social and environmental policies and programs (Hula and Jackson-Elmoore, 2001;Doh and Teegen, 2002). We have focused on the clearest and simplest types of cross-sectoral, inter-organizational, environmental policy and program, in which organizations in one sector have been primarily responsible for formulation and those in the same or another sector have been primarily responsible for implementation.…”

Section: Strategic Inter-organizational Environmentalismmentioning

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Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Starik

Heuer

2002

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During the last several decades, numerous policies and programs intended to advance environmental goals have been formulated in the US by governmental bodies and implemented by businesses and nongovernmental organizations. This article forwards a multi‐sectoral perspective that business and nonprofit organizations have also been significantly involved in environmental policy and program formulation, as well as implementation, and that governments have also fulfilled the latter strategic role in US environmental policy. In this article, nine US environmental initiatives are described and categorized according to which of the three sectors' organizations were significant formulators of the programs and which were significant implementors. Implications for future research include investigation of other environmental dyadic program combinations in addition to those presented, extension of the present analysis beyond dyads into environmental policy networks, inclusion of the strategic environmental program evaluation stage to complement formulation and implementation and exploration of effectiveness variables in cross‐sectoral, inter‐organizational collaborations. Implications for educators and practitioners are also presented. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment.

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Section: Strategic Inter-organizational Environmentalismmentioning

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Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Starik

Heuer

2002

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“…A number of case studies suggest that this is indeed the case and that localities are shaped by the interests and groups involved in governance (Bovaird, 2007; Hula and Jackson‐Elmoore, 2001; Orr, 2001) and, as a result, influence or shape the opportunities available to underserved or disenfranchised individuals. As summarized by Orr (2001), groups organized around certain issues or policy domains can change communities, improve neighborhoods, and expand opportunities at multiple stages of the policy and implementation processes.…”

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Racial Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit: Does Governance Matter?^*

Casey

Glasberg

Beeman

2011

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. This article examines the effect of community organizing on the likelihood that minority borrowers pursue home mortgage credit from regulated lenders. Methods. Governance perspectives suggest that community organizations exert significant influence on policy outcomes. We use logistic regression with interaction terms to test the effect of community organizing on the lending outcomes of minority borrowers. We use a matched control sample of cities, drawing on 2004 loan data from two midwestern cities similar in racial and economic composition but with different histories of organizing around the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Results. We find differential effects based on an applicant's race or ethnicity. Overall, African-American applicants are less likely to pursue mortgage credit for home ownership from regulated lenders than their white, non-Hispanic counterparts. However, African Americans seeking mortgage credit in a city with a history of CRA organizing are more likely to apply to regulated lenders than their racial counterparts in a city without CRA organizing. However, while organizing reduces the disparities between white and African-American applicants, a gap still remains. Conclusion. African-American borrowers living in cities with a history of community organizing around CRA appear more likely to pursue mortgage credit from traditional, regulated lenders, suggesting that governance matters.Economic theories largely rooted in public choice theory have been applied to analyze the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 (Barr, 2004), evaluate the ability of CRA to increase or decrease efficiency in lending markets (Benston, 1997;Lang and Nakamura, 1993), and its ability to increase access to credit from traditional lending institutions for historically disadvantaged borrowers. Although insight from these analyses provides relevant policy information, analyses rooted in these perspectives adopt a traditional approach to policy analysis, one that assumes policies are implemented by a neutral administrative state in line with static,

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“…Over the past thirty years there has been a dramatic transformation in the way North American political processes operate. One particularly important structural change is an increased tendency to separate funding from the design and implementation of public policy [75]. While this has typically taken the form of state/provincial and local implementation of public programmes with federal funding, it has also involved service provision by private and non-profit organizations using public funds.…”

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Sustainability and local economic development in Canada and the United States

Reese¹,

Sands²

2007

Int. J. SDP

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This article provides a description, summary, and analysis of representative efforts to deal with the challenges to sustainability that result from the predominant patterns of land use in the metropolitan areas of North America. Two broad categories of public policies are considered: management and control of peripheral growth and revitalization efforts to improve the competitiveness of older urban areas. Metropolitan efforts to achieve more sustainable development through management of new development tend to rely more on voluntary agreements that preserve local government autonomy than on regional collaborations. The regional approaches that have been implemented to date have had only limited effectiveness. Efforts to make older communities more competitive with greenfield development have focused on downtown revitalization, industrial location incentives, business incubators, and neighborhood revitalization. While most of these efforts are carried out by state and local governments, faith-based organizations have come to play an increasingly important role. Downtown and industrial revitalization initiatives frequently provide only limited benefits despite their high public cost. Business incubators and neighborhood improvement efforts appear to be more cost effective strategies. On balance, the lack of political will and the preferences of households and businesses for new, low-density developments are likely to continue to foster unsustainable forms of urban development in most North American urban areas.

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Governing Nonprofits and Local Political Processes

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Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Racial Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit: Does Governance Matter?^*

Sustainability and local economic development in Canada and the United States

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Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Strategic inter‐organizational environmentalism in the US: A multi‐sectoral perspective of alternating eco‐policy roles

Racial Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit: Does Governance Matter?*

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